Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass taking pictures, police say

A fifth grade student in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a text message threatening to carry out a mass capturing, authorities stated.

In a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace stated it had discovered earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" despatched by a student at an elementary school.

It mentioned its native faculty threat enforcement team was immediately notified and started investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass shooting," the sheriff's office mentioned.

In video shared by authorities, the boy might be seen being led into a police vehicle.

“This student’s conduct is sickening, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a press release, noting that the risk came simply days after the deadly school taking pictures at Robb Elementary School left 19 college students and two academics lifeless.

“Proper now is just not the time to act like a little delinquent. It’s not funny,” he stated. “This child made a fake menace, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

Marceno said his team “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to analyze the incident.

The remark came as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Could 24 school shooting after it came to gentle that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of instantly shifting in on the gunman.

Chantal Da Silva is a breaking news editor for NBC Information Digital primarily based in London.